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" Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee; for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against... "
The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal - Page 255
1860
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Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an ..., Volume 3

George Ellis - 1803 - 476 pages
...bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower ! The great Emathian conqueror did spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save th' Athenian walls from ruin bare....
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Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, Volume 4

Plutarchus - 1809 - 666 pages
...he had as good right to en" pect this favour as Pindar'') he says, The great Emathian conqueror did spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground (Sonn. viii.) Diod. Sic. xvii. 10 — 13. reports many prodigies, which an, nounced this disastrous...
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English Minstrelsy: Being a Selection of Fugitive Poetry from the ..., Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 pages
...seas-, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower ; The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of...Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save th' Athenian walls from ruin bare....
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Paradise regained. An account of Cowper's writings, relating to Milton. A ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muse's bower : The great Emathian conquerour bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground: And the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare....
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Paradise Lost and Regained: With the Latin and Other Poems of John ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...sun's hright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muse's bower : The great Emathian conquerour bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground : And the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare....
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The Friend: A Series of Essays

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...consents to shed the blood of its' Children." You remember Milton's Sonnet — " The great Emathion conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus when temple and tower Went to the ground " Now though the Dusseldorf Map-maker may stand in the same relation to the Thebun Bard as the snail...
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Specimens of the Classic Poets: In a Chronological Series from ..., Volume 1

Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1814 - 458 pages
...intended to the city : " Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower; The great Ematbian conqueror bade spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground. Such was the respect for genius testified by Alexander the Great : a character, which the precipitance...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 5

Plutarch - 1816 - 348 pages
...poet, he had as good right to expect this favour as Pindar") he says, The great Emathian conqueror did spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground (Sonn. vlii.) opposed the revolt, he sold the rest (to the number of thirty thousand) for slaves. About...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 314 pages
...nation makes war, and consents to shed the blood of its children." You remember Milton's sonnet — •' The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of...Pindarus when temple and tower Went to the ground" Now though the Dusseldorf map-maker may stand in the same relation to the Theban bard, as the snail...
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Memoirs of John, duke of Marlborough, with his original correspondence, Volume 3

William Coxe - 1819 - 734 pages
...Telemachus, imitate Alexander, at the capture of Thebes, when, in the language of our sublime poet, " The great Emathian conqueror bid spare " The house...Pindarus, when temple and tower " Went to the ground." MILTON, Sonnet VIII. * Vie de Marlborough, vol. 3, p. 322. CHAPTER 104. 1711. Marlborough proposes...
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